Services Overview
Architecture & Construction
We can help with your project along all milestones, from preliminary design to construction documents. Whether you provide preliminary CAD drawings or a simple napkin sketch, we will provide the plans, elevations, sections, and details required for construction documents and more.
Food Service Design
Whether you’re an operator with a small space needing tenant improvements, or an architect needing a university-level cafeteria layout, we can guide you through every step of the process towards opening your food service operation.
Custom Fabrication
Need a custom chef’s counter for your restaurant kitchen? Or some custom stainless steel cabinetry for your house’s outdoor patio? Or maybe you need custom parts drawn up so the fabricator making them can properly quote you a price. Whatever your needs, we can help makers make their projects a reality.
CAD Development
Trying to transition from hand drafting to a computerized system? Or maybe you’ve already started using CAD but never got the chance to create standards, templates, or a block library for your frequently used symbols. Whatever stage you’re at, we can setup an in-house system customized to your specific industry or needs.
F.A.Q.
If there is anything you are unsure about, feel free to contact us.
Drafting Services: Send us an example/sketch/drawing of your project and/or of what drawings you require. Include any information that is not readily visible or obvious. We will provide a quote for the deliverables you request.
Consulting (Food Service): Call us to discuss your project in depth, providing a business plan and/or menu, and If possible, we can meet at your jobsite to review conditions and come up with a plan of action. If you want to move forward, we will provide a design contract.
Once your project has been evaluated and a quote or contract accepted, we start the design process. This may be sitting down and discussing your needs, wants and specifics while sketching possibilities; or it might be reviewing the design development set of drawings and discussing all the details needed to complete the construction documents phase. Either way, we work closely with you to establish goals, and then constantly provide updates as the project progresses.
Every project is different, so there is no single answer to this. Typically, architectural projects takes months to coordinate with all the industries and consultants involved; food service projects are similar, as food service portions tend to be the last step in larger projects. Projects with smaller, simpler scopes could be done on the order of weeks (or less).
Regardless of the time involved, we always keep you apprised of time frames, and meet established goals by any preset date.
We are NOT licensed architects or engineers, so while we can produce full documentation for such projects, we cannot be responsible for any architectural or engineering requirements.
We do, however, provide consulting for Food Service and Landscape/Permaculture design.
Again, this depends on the project.
If we act as draftsmen only, using your drawings, standards, and title-blocks, then those drawing are as much yours as if they were produced within your own office.
If GPD acts as designer/consultants, then we are the responsible party for those drawings and you as our client have access to those drawings for coordination or submittal processes throughout the course of your project.